With the aim of a further investigation of the nonperturbative Hamiltonian approach in gauge field theories, the mass spectrum of QED-2 is calculated numerically by using the corrected Hamiltonian that was constructed previously for this theory on the light front. The calculations are performed for a wide range of the ratio of the fermion mass to the fermion charge at all values of the parameter $\hat\te$ related to the vacuum angle $\te$. The results obtained in this way are compared with the results of known numerical calculations on a lattice in Lorentz coordinates. A method is proposed for extrapolating the values obtained within the infrared-regularized theory to the limit where the regularization is removed. The resulting spectrum agrees well with the known results in the case of $\te=0$; in the case of $\te=\pi$, there is agreement at small values of the fermion mass (below the phase-transition point).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)267-278
JournalPhysics of Atomic Nuclei
Volume68
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2005

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